"Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have
managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things.
And astronomers have looked further and further into the
dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe
the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the
large: it's us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves,
and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say
to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would
we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and
look at us?"
Another Earth (Mike Cahill 2011), written by Mike Cahill and Brit Marling,
who met at Georgetown University as students of economics.